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Removing unwanted layers with the PURGE command

Removing unwanted layers with the PURGE command - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Preparing Drawings for Revit Linking

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Removing unwanted layers with the PURGE command

- [Instructor] So we're staying in our 02_OFFICE_ReceptionArea drawing and you'll remember in one of the previous videos in this chapter when we were optimizing our layers, what we did was we put all of the grid bubbles with the letters and the numbers in onto the grid layer. So for example, if I select one of these bubbles here, click on it like so, you can see it's on the S-GRID layer, not the S-GRID-IDEN layer. So if I jump into Layer Properties here in the Layers panel on the Home tab on the ribbon, and I just slide down the list there, you can see look, there's S-GRID-IDEN there, and you can see that it's not being used by anything, because the little sheet of paper is white next to it instead of blue. Any of these ones with the blue ones indicate that the layers are being used somewhere in the drawing. So what we can do now is we can purge out that layer that we don't need. Now obviously I'm only going to do a single layer here. What you could do is purge out many layers on a…

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